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A curmudgeon looks at the world
09 March 2016
History for the day: 1862: the ironclads
On 9 March 1862, during the
Civil War
, the ironclads
USS
Monitor
and
CSS Virginia
(formerly the
Merrimac
) clashed to a draw after five hours at
Hampton Roads
, Virginia.
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